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title: The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses. Who acts: privates, Mouse leaders. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mice and the Weasels, sentence 10

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The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses.

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**Who acts:** privates, Mouse leaders · **What happens:** slip, not squeeze · **To what, where:** holes, narrow openings

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mice and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (privates, Mouse leaders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:55:10
# text = The privates easily slipped into their holes, but the Mouse leaders could not squeeze through the narrow openings because of their head-dresses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	privates	private	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | past | the privates |  |  | privates's holes |  | easily *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **squeeze** | could | the Mouse leaders |  |  | the narrow openings |  | because privates's head dresses | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through opening=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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